Lancashire

Blackpool planning data

2,061 planning applications from Blackpool. Ask questions about them in plain English from ChatGPT or Claude — no coding, about two minutes to set up — or pull them straight into your own software. 14 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

2,061

Applications

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Enforcement notices

242

Appeals

2023–2026

Date range

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What Blackpool decides

Blackpool has approved 83.2% of the 1,702 applications it has decided since January 2023. Across the 225 councils with a comparable caseload the range is 71.37% to 99.14%, so this is below the middle of the pack (89.18%).

83.2%

Approved, of 1,702 decided

Median days to a decision

90.5

Average days

What it mostly decides

The mix of application types Blackpool handles — useful for telling whether your kind of application is routine here or unusual.

Application type	Applications	Share
Full	1,154	56.0%
Other	248	12.0%
Conditions	207	10.0%
Certificate	196	9.5%
Amendment	123	6.0%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What Blackpool actually fills in

A "field" is one piece of information on an application — the decision date, the applicant's name, the address. Councils fill these in inconsistently, so this table measures how often Blackpool actually provides each one, across all 2,061 records. Anything listed as reliable you can count on; anything lower, check the council's own record before relying on it.

Once this data is connected to ChatGPT or Claude you can just ask "what information does Blackpool actually fill in?" and get these same numbers back. How to connect →

Reliable — 90% or more of records

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Address `address`	2,061	100.0%
Case officer `case_officer`	2,061	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	2,061	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	2,061	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	2,061	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	2,058	99.9%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	2,059	99.9%
Ward `ward`	2,059	99.9%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	2,040	99.0%
Postcode `postcode`	1,966	95.4%
Status `status`	1,935	93.9%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	1,935	93.9%
Decision `decision`	1,854	90.0%
Decision date `decision_date`	1,854	90.0%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	1,821	88.4%
Agent's email `agent_email`	1,709	82.9%
Agent's name `agent_name`	1,709	82.9%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	1,664	80.7%
Agent's company `agent_company`	1,594	77.3%
Standardised type `standard_type`	1,573	76.3%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	1,514	73.5%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	0	0.0%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	0	0.0%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

Blackpool's portal has been verified not to publish these fields at all — different from a field that exists but is rarely filled in.

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Or call it from your own code

curl -H "X-Api-Key: pk_..." \
  "https://ukplanningapi.co.uk/v1/applications?council_id=16&limit=5"

Council id for Blackpool is 16. Full API reference for developers →

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